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The AJ’s Women in Architecture issue features interviews with Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize; and architectural photographer Hélène Binet, who has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for women working in the wider industry. PLUS We revisit O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock LSE student centre to see how it is faring five years on; the AJ’s Working in Architecture ...

English Heritage calls time on heavy-handed pub design

English Heritage is drowning its sorrows after failing to make either a conservation or a new-build award in the 1997 CAMRA/EH Pub Design Awards, announced this week.

The agency blamed heavy-handed design and a need for a keener judgement by local planners, citing a preponderance of radical alterations to buildings of character. 'Pastiche and Disneyesque travesties straight out of the catalogue' marred a large proportion of entries, although in what was dubbed the 'year of the bank', many conversions of high-street buildings were done with panache and sensitivity. One, Frazer's Bar in Edinburgh, won the conversion category. Andrew Wong's Bread and Roses pub in Clapham won the refurbishment section.

An RIBA honorary fellowship awarded to the sheikh ruler of a city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has come under fire amid claims of a conflict of interest in the judging process and on separate human rights grounds

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